Seda Kurt Şengün
Seda Kurt Şengün is a landscape architect (MSci), working across design and education, founder of "Büro Seda Kurt Şengün" and co-founder of PARCH. She graduated from the Department of Landscape Architecture at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) in 2008, and earned her MSc in Architectural Design from the same institution in 2014 with a thesis titled "LANDSCAPE OF LOST SPACES". She was a visiting researcher at ENSA Lyon in 2013 and participated in a masterclass as an award at Bauhaus University in 2007. She presented academic papers at international conferences, invited to lectures, reviews by architects and institutes and in 2018, she invited as the principal jury of the 10th National Landscape Architecture Professional Awards organized by the Chamber of Landscape Architects of Türkiye. She has critical essays addressing her design approach, the design studios she runs and the professional discussions on landscape architecture. In 2017, she co-founded PARCH, an architectural practice and thought initiative, together with Hakan Tüzün Şengün and founded "Büro Seda Kurt Şengün" in 2020 as a registered landscape architecture bureau. In addition to the many architectural project awards that Seda Kurt Şengün won, in 2025, the bureau's "EARTH QUARRY: a New Landscape Architecture" project is exhibited in the Pavilion of Türkiye at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale. For a decade, Seda has contributed to architecture and landscape education in Türkiye, conducting design studios and interdisciplinary research at institutions including MEF University, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul Technical University, and others. Her academic and professional work often engages with ecologies of architecture, archaeology, geography, and geology—bridging intellectual research with built practice.
Hakan Tüzün Şengün
Hakan Tüzün Şengün is an architect (PhD), academic and co-founder of PARCH. In 1994, he graduated from Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture. After graduation in 1999, completed his master's thesis in Architectural History Department at Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture. In 2004, he took the first prize Arkitera Architecture Festival "Open Charrette" and joined the "Global Architect and Media Event" for a short visit for New York and Washington DC. His proposal "ZEPPELINIZED" for the Ryungyong Hotel was published as No. 893 DOMUS cover (2006). He was the editor of the architectural exhibition entitled “HOME : A Negotiation For Dwelling" (2006). In 2010 with the group İMKANMEKAN published the "İMKANMEKAN: Small Interventions In Public Space" which they took the special prize at XII.Turkish National Architecture Awards and Exhibition. Studied on thresholds and transition in public space at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Lyon as an invited researcher for his doctoral studies in France (2013). In 2016 worked as the editor of theme TECTONICS at BETONART 48. In 2017, he co-founded PARCH, which is an architecture and landscape design practise based in İstanbul and primarily working on design, research and publishing mostly on landscape/architecture interface issues. A year later completed his PhD at Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture Architectural Design Program on "POETICS OF THE STREET MARKET : A Phenomenological Study on Temporality of Ephemeral Structures" (2018). Currently, he is a studio instructor and lecturer at Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture.
